Xia Zhen in "Qing Ping Le" is a great traitor in everyone's eyes, he is selfish and greedy, his schemes are gloomy, his methods are poisonous, and he frames loyal ministers and good generals, which is disgusted by the audience.
Xia Chunqi, whether before or after his death, the name of "traitorous minister" can be said to be worthy of the name. However, the author recently carefully read the history books, but found a different Xia Zhen.
Xia Chun was brilliant when he was a teenager, and he wrote poetry with a wave of his hand. At the age of eleven, he was taught by Yao Xuan, a fifteen-year-old zhongjinshi and then a right-hand man.
At the age of twelve, his composition "The Endowment of the Palace" was well received. In his early twenties, he was promoted to Guanglu Temple, then transferred to Taizhou as a general judge, and then promoted to the editor of the national history, and together with Wang Dan and others, he revised the "Notes on Living".
When Xia Chun was 19 years old, his father Xia Chenghao died while fighting the Khitans, and Xia Chun became a martyr's orphan. In order to show his sympathy, the imperial court appointed Xia Zhen to serve as the chief bookkeeper of Danyang County, equivalent to the current secretary of the county party committee.
In the first year of Kangding (1040), at the age of 56, Xia Zhen was appointed as the highest military and political commander in the northwestern side of the Song Dynasty (Xuanhui Nanyuan envoy and Shaanxi Silu Jingluo pacified the envoy, Zhi Yongxing Army), presiding over the war against Western Xia. The imperial court also arranged two very capable deputies for Xia Chen, namely: Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi.
Xia Chun knew that people were good at appointment, and even Fan Zhongyan, Song Yu, Song Qi, and others had been recommended by him. Although Xia Zhen was criticized for his adultery and evil deeds, he also achieved great political achievements, benefited the people, and became a generation of capable officials.
It is said that Xia Chun is a traitor. In the "History of Song", he took his son Xia Anqi and Ding Zhi and Wang Qinruo to pass on the same biography. The Yuan RenTuo, who wrote the History of The Song Dynasty, said that he was "Wang Qinruo, Ding Zhi, and Xia Zhen, all of whom were referred to as adulterers and evils."
During the time of Zhenzong, the sea was at peace, the wenzhi was harmonious, and the group of courtiers would be obedient, and the discussion of sealing Zen would be yu shu, and the false creation of the Heavenly Book would be in Qin Ruo, and the so-called Daoist monarch would be as good as Yahweh. Conspiracies and suspicions, hooks lead to success, one dwelling in the government, exclusion and heeling, how to suffer from gain and loss.
Say that Xia Chun is a noh. When Xia Chun was in charge of Xiangzhou Zhizhou, there was a great famine in Xiangzhou, and he presided over the opening of the official government to release grain and provide relief to the people.
When he was in office in Hongzhou, he banned the "Hong customs and ghosts, and many witches and deceives the people", breaking superstitions and benefiting the localities. After being appointed as the Zhizhou of Qingzhou, he supported the construction of the Nanyang Bridge, which became the first wooden-framed rainbow bridge in China, known as the Wannian Bridge.
The "Xia Wenzhuang Gongzhen Shinto Stele" written by another Zaifu Wang Jue in the contemporary era has a saying that "Gong Shao is eager to learn, and he learns everything from the book of Shi Baishi's Luni-Yang Calendar." His study must study the ancient and modern causes of chaos and human catastrophes. It is an article, Hong Yan Huan Li, which is beyond the reach of scholars.